130 results about "Medication Distribution" patented technology

A drug supply apparatus that packages a drug with packaging paper that is conveyed from an upstream side to a downstream side, the packaging paper being folded in half with an opening on an upper side, the drug supply apparatus including: a nozzle that dispenses the drug into the packaging paper, the packaging paper including a sealed part, in which the nozzle includes: an insertion guidance piece that protrudes downward and positions a folded part of a lower end of the packaging paper in a state of being inserted in the packaging paper from the opening on the upper side, and a posture adjustment part that guides to inside of the packaging paper the drug, and causes the drug to stand while shifting the drug toward the sealed part side in the packaging paper, the posture adjustment part being provided on the downstream side of the insertion guidance piece.

The present disclosure provides a caregiver system and method for interfacing with and controlling an oral medication dispensing device. The system registers the caregiver and provides the caregiver a list of patients under the caregiver's care, as well as associated medication dose schedules for each of the one or more patients. The caregiver is provided reminders regarding doses and allowed to modify the dose schedule to generate a modified dose schedule. The modified does schedule is pushed to a patient system associated with a medication dispensing device.

A variable sensor system for non-contact vital sign monitoring of animals is described. Non-contact vital sign monitoring may involve correcting measured signals for reflectance and variations in distance between measurements. Non-contact vital sign detection may include temperature detection, and / or measuring cardiovascular and respiratory information. Embodiments are described using a non-contact variable sensor integrated with a weight scale, integrated with a drone, having a pan-tilt monitoring feature, integrated with a kennel, integrated with an automatic pass-fail interface, and including a medication dispensing control module.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media related to an intuitive total intravenous anesthesia infusion system and method of operation. The system includes a device that has a body with a display device, a rotatable input control knob, a cartridge receiver, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to set dosing parameters for a medication and dispense the medication via a medication dispensing controller according to the dosing parameters.

The utility model relates to a standard holding device, which comprises a main body shell provided with a receding through hole and a suction nozzle; the cover body is rotationally connected outside the main body shell; a drug dispensing assembly located inside the body housing; the trigger gear is rotationally connected into the main body shell; one of the cover body and the trigger gear is provided with a linkage bulge, and the other one is provided with a linkage hole; the linkage protrusion penetrates through the receding through hole and is movably inserted into the linkage hole. When the cover body rotates, the cover body firstly rotates till the linkage protrusion makes contact with the hole wall of one end of the linkage hole, and then under the cooperation of the linkage protrusion and the linkage hole, the cover body drives the trigger gear to synchronously rotate to trigger medicine distribution. According to the standard containing device, the cover body of the standard containing device and the trigger gear are connected in an inserted mode through the linkage protrusion and the linkage hole to establish the linkage relation, the two operation steps of opening the cover body and preparing for suction can be completed through one action, operation is convenient and fast, the structure is simple, structural modification is little, the linkage relation is stable, and faults are not prone to occurring.

An apparatus, system, and method for improving the efficiency of medication distribution within a healthcare facility. In particular, the invention provides parallel dispensing of multiple medications from a network of modular, connected, and automated or semi-automated dispensing modules. The method is directed toward receiving and executing multiple collection, dispensing, and delivery orders simultaneously while operating in a healthcare facility. The invention may sort medications for storage and subsequent delivery while rapidly servicing a high volume of pharmacy orders. The invention includes visible, electronic marking of data which may indicate its stored medication and final destination. The system tracks each unit as it transports medication throughout the facility. The invention organizes the stored medication using removable packaging which allows identification and verification of dosage by the system while being easily accessed by staff.

The present disclosure provides a caregiver system and method for interfacing with and controlling an oral medication dispensing device. The system registers the caregiver and provides the caregiver a list of patients under the caregiver's care, as well as associated medication dose schedules for each of the one or more patients. The caregiver is provided reminders regarding doses and allowed to modify the dose schedule to generate a modified dose schedule. The modified does schedule is pushed to a patient system associated with a medication dispensing device.

The present disclosure provides a patient system and method for interfacing with and controlling an oral medication dispensing device. The system registers the dispensing device to a particular patient and records biometric data regarding the patient. Upon verifying a dose schedule and biometric authentication of the patient, the system authorizes use of the medication dispensing device and causes an activator mechanism to activate. In doing so, an activator mechanism within the dispensing device moves a medication cartridge between a stored position and a dispensing position, where it can be compressed to safely and efficiently dispense medication to the patient.

A medication adherence system and device are disclosed including a medicine dispensing cup having a sensor portion including a processor, memory, power supply, network adaptor therein, and a camera, the camera directed upwardly and positioned at the top of the sensor portion. In various embodiments a medicine containment portion to hold consumable medicine placed within is attachable with the sensor portion and may include a transparent portion on its bottom. When attached, the transparent portion is aligned with the camera such that the camera views upwardly through the bottom where the camera is configured to capture medication adherence data indicating whether medicine within the attached medicine containment portion has been consumed. The medicine dispensing cup may be received in a base unit that may provide charging of the power supply and further complementary medication adherence data. Data received from or derived from the camera may be provided to EMR systems.

The utility model provides an intelligent drug delivery machine, which belongs to the technical field of drug management and comprises a fixed box, bearing boxes fixedly connected to the tops of three sides of the fixed box respectively, drug feeding openings formed in the bottoms of the bearing boxes, observation windows formed in the inner surfaces of the bearing boxes and drug taking cabins formed in the tops of the three sides of the fixed box respectively. The signboard is fixedly mounted on the outer side of the medicine taking cabin; the medicine feeding mechanism comprises a medicine pushing assembly and a medicine distributing assembly which are matched to feed morning, noon and evening medicines into the corresponding medicine taking cabins according to time periods; the medicine pushing assembly comprises a servo motor installed on the outer side of the fixing box in a matched mode. Through the cooperation of the medicine pushing assembly and the medicine distributing assembly, it can be guaranteed that medicines in the morning, noon and evening are accurately pushed out to the designated medicine taking cabins every eight hours, medicine mixing is effectively prevented, leakage of redundant medicines can be prevented, and the effects that the medicine distributing accuracy is further guaranteed, and meanwhile the wrong medicine taking risk is reduced are achieved.

The invention relates to a method for dispensing, in particular aseptically dispensing, a medium (2), in particular a medicament, into containers (4), the interior (5) of which can be or is closed in a sterile manner, in particular by means of a container closure (6), wherein containers (4) are received in a magazine interior (7) of a magazine (3) and wherein the magazine interior (7) is sealed off towards the outside of the magazine in a sterile manner, wherein the magazine (3) is coupled to a dispensing apparatus (1) via a transfer-port arrangement (8), wherein the dispensing apparatus (1) has a dispensing unit (9) and a dispensing interior (10), wherein the magazine interior (7) and the dispensing interior (10) are coupled to one another via a through-opening (11) in the transfer-port arrangement (8) and, as part of the coupling operation, the magazine interior (7) and the dispensing interior (10) are connected to one another, wherein the containers (4) are fed from the magazine (3) to the dispensing unit (9) individually and in an aligned state through the through-opening (11) and, in the dispensing interior (10), the medium (2) is dispensed into the containers (4).

This utility model relates to the field of pharmaceutical drying technology, and more particularly to a multi-layer drying oven for pharmaceutical manufacturing; comprising: a tank body, a pipe assembly, and trays; by centrally placing the medicine into the inner tube, and then the upper ends of the second opening and the first opening are connected, when the transmission plate rises, it pushes the medicine in the inner tube to distribute to multiple trays, and after the medicine is dried, the lower ends of the second opening and the first opening are connected, and the medicine in the multiple trays falls into the medicine receiving box along the inner tube. The above method facilitates the placement and removal of medicine, and when the medicine is stirred, the revolution of the stirring rod generates a certain centrifugal force on the medicine, causing the medicine to move from the center of the tray to the edge, the medicine moves to the end of the stirring rod, and then the medicine slides back to the center of the tray. This is repeated to stir the medicine, so that the medicine can be close to the heat source, thereby being heated evenly in the tank.

This invention provides a method, apparatus, device, and readable storage medium for constructing a drug recommendation model, relating to the field of drug recommendation algorithm technology. The method includes acquiring diagnostic and surgical records to extract patient representations; calculating drug allocation weights based on the patient representations; constructing an initial model, training the initial model using the drug allocation weights, and updating the patient representations; recalculating the drug allocation weights based on the updated patient representations, and repeatedly training the initial model using the updated drug allocation weights to obtain a drug recommendation model. This invention addresses the technical problems of existing algorithms that cannot assign different weights based on the importance of neighboring nodes to the current node and ignore patient group characteristics with high representation similarity.

A drug delivery device includes a drug delivery assembly configured to receive a portion of a patient's head and mount to a helmet or support. The drug delivery assembly comprises: one or more imaging devices configured to place an eye of the patient in its field of view; an injection assembly configured to receive a medicament to be injected; and a segmentation assembly comprising one or more actuators, the segmentation assembly configured to position the injection assembly relative to an eye of the patient. The controller receives one or more images from the one or more imaging devices; detecting a position of a limbus of the eye of the patient in the one or more images; and activating the one or more actuators to drive a needle into a placement position on the eye of the patient and dispense a medicament into the eye through the needle.

The objective is to provide a drug dispensing device that does not necessarily require a robot or the use of multiple weight measuring devices when determining the quality of the weight measuring device. [Solution] A drug feeder having a drug container for containing powdered drug, a holding member for holding the drug container, and a weight measuring means for directly or indirectly measuring the weight of the drug container, which can discharge powdered drug from the drug container and detect the amount of powdered drug discharged by the weight measuring means, wherein the feeder has a weight member 42 and a lifting means for raising or lowering at least one of the weight member 42, the weight measuring means, or the drug container. Furthermore, calibration and / or fault detection of the weight measuring means is performed by comparing the state in which the load of the weight member 42 is applied to the weight measuring means with the state in which the load of the weight member 42 is not applied to the weight measuring means.

The present disclosure provides a keyed medication cartridge for use in a handheld oral medication dispensing device. The medication cartridge is designed with alignment features for connecting to the medication dispensing device. The cartridge includes a shell and medication vial therein. In use, alignment features on the dispensing device pass through the shell and lock against the vial, allowing a user to depress the shell and activate a pump assembly to force medication from the medication cartridge.

The utility model relates to the technical field of medicine distribution devices, and discloses a portable medicine distribution device which comprises a medicine box shell, a protective shell is fixedly connected to the top of the medicine box shell, a plurality of round holes are formed in the outer wall of the protective shell, a plurality of limiting grooves are formed in the top of the medicine box shell, and the round holes are communicated with the limiting grooves. And the bottom of the inner wall of the limiting groove is slidably connected with a limiting block, the limiting block penetrates through the bottom of the limiting groove, and the outer wall of the limiting block is rotationally connected with a curved arm. According to the medicine box, when the medicine box needs to be opened, the right end of the curved arm can be pressed through the round hole, the left end of the curved arm tilts upwards, and therefore the limiting block at the left end is controlled to move upwards, the outer wall of the limiting block is separated from the medicine box, and the medicine box can be pulled away at the moment; and then the limiting block is controlled to slide downwards, and finally the medicine containing box is limited, so that the medicine containing box is prevented from being opened by mistaken touch in the carrying process.

Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for differentiating a therapeutic dose and a priming event to properly administer medication to patients. In one example aspect, a method for differentiating therapeutic doses and priming events in administering a medication to a patient includes determining a time window for monitoring dispensing of the medication by an injection pen device. Multiple dispense events each releasing an amount of the medication occur in the time window. The method also includes classifying dispense events prior to a last dispense event in the time window as priming events or therapeutic doses and designating the last dispense event in the time window as a therapeutic dose for facilitating calculation and tracking of a dosage amount for the patient.

A portable medication dispensing and administration device intended for use in a healthcare facility, equipped with an automated system for loading medications into the device and an automated system for dispensing medications.

A system and method for securely dispensing medication are described herein. The system includes a telemedicine center that communicates with medical assistant station and a medication distribution station located at a correctional facility and a physician center remote to the correctional facility. The medical assistant station transmits a request for medication to the telemedicine center. The telemedicine center verifies an identity of the medical assistant requesting the medication and transmits the request to the physician center. When the telemedicine center receives a confirmation to dispense medicine from the physician center, an identity of the physician transmitting the confirmation is verified. The telemedicine center then verifies an identity of an inmate to receive the medication, by way of the medication distribution station, and allows the medication distribution station to dispense the medication.

This invention discloses a tablet driver and drug dispensing device, including a drive unit, a shaft, a hub, and a spring arm. The shaft extends perpendicularly to the drive unit and defines a rotation axis. The hub is disposed on one side of the drive unit and can rotate around the shaft. The surface of the hub is configured to receive a target tablet. The spring arm extends from the outer periphery of the shaft towards the inner wall of the hub and is connected to the hub via a quick-connect structure. When the hub rotates relative to the shaft, the spring arm can deflect clockwise / counterclockwise, thereby providing tension compensation. This tablet driver and drug dispensing device, through its tablet driver compensation design, ensures that the drug carrier is subjected to stable tension and is evenly spaced, thus guaranteeing accurate drug delivery. The tablet driver has a simple structure and is easy to assemble, contributing to cost reduction and efficiency improvement in device assembly.

The present disclosure provides a keyed medication cartridge for use in a handheld oral medication dispensing device. The medication cartridge is designed with alignment features for connecting to the medication dispensing device. The cartridge includes a shell and medication vial therein. In use, alignment features on the dispensing device pass through the shell and lock against the vial, allowing a user to depress the shell and activate a pump assembly to force medication from the medication cartridge.

A drug dispensing device is configured to contain a liquid drug dispensed by the drug dispensing device and has a plurality of dose indicia spaced apart from each other around and relative to a periphery of a surface of the drug dispensing device. Each dose identifier has a different height relative to a reference level and corresponds to a different dose of the liquid medicament.

A cartridge and system for storing and dispensing a liquid medicament, the cartridge comprising an outer container, a collapsible bag disposed within the outer container and configured to store a liquid medicament. The cartridge further includes a cap configured to close the outer container and the collapsible bag, where the cap includes a medication dispensing channel extending through the cap to the collapsible bag and one or more pressure balancing channels extending through the cap to an intermediate cavity between the outer container and the collapsible bag, and a seal configured to enclose the medication dispensing channel and the one or more pressure balancing channels. The lid is configured such that when the seal is broken, the contents of the collapsible pouch may be dispensed and gas from outside the cartridge may enter the intermediate cavity through the pressure balancing channel.